If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.